What should be the punishment for adultery?
What I want and what should be legal are two different things. I want horror movie levels of retribution. That probably shouldn't be made into law.
Well, marriage is a contract and promise between two parties. Shouldn't breaking a contract be punishable?
But it's not breaking the contract if all parties consent to extra people in the relationship. Consent is my biggest hang-up. I don't want to share but I know some people do. As long as there's consent, I don't care.
Would not the punishment in this case, cause people to be more careful in following driving laws?
No, because it's unevenly applied. A thousand speeders and a cop can only catch one. With stats like that, speeding will never stop. I like the idea from The Fifth Element, where your car just automatically deducts points from your license when you do bad things. Adultery would be the same. Only certain people would be punished, because government and religious leaders and business leaders and such will mostly get away with it.
I feel for the poor children of these unions!
Coming from a home broken via abuse and adultery, the harm from adultery only came from the fact we were raised to believe it wasn't okay. In fact it wasn't ... for Mom. My father felt free to sow oats all over the field.
Yes, Jesus was "sent to the lost sheep", but why? So they would change and repent.
Many of the outcasts he hung out with were just sick or in jobs people don't like (tax collecting). What did they have to repent about when it was the society mistreating them in the first place?
He said, "the sick need a physician".
Miraculously he never hangs out with political leaders who oppress all those sick people. The oppressors were the sickest of all and repentance could've brought extensive long-term relief, but he didn't bother.
And he
did consider adultery as wrong....
John 8:11, in the KJV, has Jesus telling the adulteress: "go, and
sin no more."
See, I see that story (that I've heard is an inserted forgery) as "the real problem is that you are the village bicycle and everyone's ridden you but they aren't going to stone themselves." Do you really think the men will hear her say "Yeah, I'm no longer in the sex biz" and go "Okay, that's fine, I'll go back to my wife"?
According to this, then, bigamy should be lawful.
Many people in the bible had multiple spouses and chicks on the side. God never tells them to stop it. Given that it's hard for even a two-income household to survive anymore, from a sheer practical standpoint, I could see letting multiple partners slide morally. As long as consent is present for all parties, of course.
Well, since marrying two or more spouses is not allowed, that means there's little commitment given to the parties outside of the marriage contract.
Jesus had 2 dads and he was ... oh, yeah, his family thought him mad. Dang, I thought that was going somewhere else....
I am considered rather prudish, one thing I seriously disapprove of is cheating on a spouse.
But your poll implied state imposed punishment. I strongly oppose that as well. There are many things I disapprove of, but totally want the state to stay out of. Police and courts and such just aren't going to help.
Adultery will never be illegal as long as there is Congress.
Outside of the law, societal, and religious pressures, how is the child confused if he has more than two parents? In a religious and societal environment we have today, of course he would be confused. In itself, how is the child confused?
I'm sure Ishmael and Isaac discussed this growing up. Why would they be confused? Per Sarah, it was legal for him to screw a slave and the kid would be hers, but after the kid was born she hated the idea SHE BROUGHT UP.
Anyway, eventually I voted "other". The very least should be mandatory STD testing and other medical concerns.
Example: speed limit signs, along with the accompanied threat of fines, have worked for many years! (They've kept me from outright speeding! How 'bout you?)
I have never lived in a place where the majority of people don't speed. The "limit" is considered more of a "suggested minimum".
Hey, the courts make bigamy a crime. Apparently, they think something is wrong with it, too.
Dumb Laws in Alabama. Crazy Alabama Laws. We have weird laws, strange laws, and just plain crazy laws!
There is an entire website devoted to the fact that making something a crime can be really pathetically stupid.
It is illegal to sell peanuts in Lee County after sundown on Wednesday.
Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.
A couple of examples.
And you don't see this as a danger in spreading STD's?
That's what learning about safe sex in sex ed is for.
You can encourage it by demanding the spreader of disease must pay the medical treatments for the people they infected if they knew they were infected.
Then, why doesn't U.S. Law allow it? Most of the world doesn't.
Men don't want women to shop around. That's why monogamy exists, to turn women into personal sex toys for men. Like I said earlier, my father could sleep with other women but threatened my mother with death if she ever went out with anyone.
